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Ruth 1:17

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Daughter-In-Law;   Friendship;   Imprecation;   Mother-In-Law;   Oath;   Readings, Select;   Ruth;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;   Oaths;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mahlon;   Oath;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Oath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Naomi;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Certain;   Ruth;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ruth Rabbah;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for July 31;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Where you die, I will die,and there I will be buried.May the Lord punish me,and do so severely,if anything but death separates you and me.
Hebrew Names Version
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
King James Version
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Lexham English Bible
Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, and even more, unless death separates you and me!"
English Standard Version
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you."
New Century Version
And where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. I ask the Lord to punish me terribly if I do not keep this promise: Not even death will separate us."
New English Translation
Wherever you die, I will die—and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! Only death will be able to separate me from you!"
Amplified Bible
"Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do the same to me [as He has done to you], and more also, if anything but death separates me from you."
New American Standard Bible
"Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates me from you."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. the Lord do so to me and more also, if ought but death depart thee and me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may Yahweh do to me, and more, if anything but death separates you and me."
Contemporary English Version
I will die where you die and be buried beside you. May the Lord punish me if we are ever separated, even by death!"
Complete Jewish Bible
Where you die, I will die; and there I will be buried. May Adonai bring terrible curses on me, and worse ones as well, if anything but death separates you and me."
Darby Translation
where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee!
Easy-to-Read Version
Where you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. I ask the Lord to punish me if I don't keep this promise: Only death will separate us."
George Lamsa Translation
Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried; may the LORD do so to me, and more also, if even death can separate me from you.
Good News Translation
Wherever you die, I will die, and that is where I will be buried. May the Lord 's worst punishment come upon me if I let anything but death separate me from you!"
Literal Translation
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Jehovah do to me, and more so, if anything but death part you and me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Loke where thou diest, there wil dye, and euen there wil I also be buried. The LORDE do this and that vnto me, death onely shal departe vs.
American Standard Version
where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Bible in Basic English
Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Where thou diest, there will I die, and there wyl I be buried: The Lord do so to me and more also, if ought but death depart thee and me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.'
King James Version (1611)
Where thou diest, wil I die, and there will I bee buried: the Lord doe so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And wherever thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if I leave thee, for death only shall divide between me and thee.
English Revised Version
where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Berean Standard Bible
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
what lond schal resseyue thee diynge, Y schal die ther ynne, and there Y schal take place of biriyng; God do to me these thingis, and adde these thingis, if deeth aloone schal not departe me and thee.
Young's Literal Translation
Where thou diest I die, and there I am buried; thus doth Jehovah to me, and thus doth He add -- for death itself doth part between me and thee.'
Update Bible Version
where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.
Webster's Bible Translation
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if aught] but death shall part thee and me.
World English Bible
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
New King James Version
Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me."
New Living Translation
Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!"
New Life Bible
I will die where you die, and there I will be buried. So may the Lord do the same to me, and worse, if anything but death takes me from you."
New Revised Standard
Where you die, I will die— there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
where thou diest, I will die, and, there, will I be buried: So, let Yahweh do to me, and, so, let him add, if, death itself, part me and thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.
Revised Standard Version
where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me."

Contextual Overview

6One day she got herself together, she and her two daughters-in-law, to leave the country of Moab and set out for home; she had heard that God had been pleased to visit his people and give them food. And so she started out from the place she had been living, she and her two daughters-in-law with her, on the road back to the land of Judah. 8After a short while on the road, Naomi told her two daughters-in-law, "Go back. Go home and live with your mothers. And may God treat you as graciously as you treated your deceased husbands and me. May God give each of you a new home and a new husband!" She kissed them and they cried openly. 10 They said, "No, we're going on with you to your people." 11But Naomi was firm: "Go back, my dear daughters. Why would you come with me? Do you suppose I still have sons in my womb who can become your future husbands? Go back, dear daughters—on your way, please! I'm too old to get a husband. Why, even if I said, ‘There's still hope!' and this very night got a man and had sons, can you imagine being satisfied to wait until they were grown? Would you wait that long to get married again? No, dear daughters; this is a bitter pill for me to swallow—more bitter for me than for you. God has dealt me a hard blow." 14 Again they cried openly. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye; but Ruth embraced her and held on. 15 Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law is going back home to live with her own people and gods; go with her." 16But Ruth said, "Don't force me to leave you; don't make me go home. Where you go, I go; and where you live, I'll live. Your people are my people, your God is my god; where you die, I'll die, and that's where I'll be buried, so help me God —not even death itself is going to come between us!" 18When Naomi saw that Ruth had her heart set on going with her, she gave in. And so the two of them traveled on together to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem the whole town was soon buzzing: "Is this really our Naomi? And after all this time!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the lord: 1 Samuel 3:17, 1 Samuel 25:22, 2 Samuel 3:9, 2 Samuel 3:35, 2 Samuel 19:13, 1 Kings 2:23, 1 Kings 19:2, 1 Kings 20:10, 2 Kings 6:31

but death: Acts 11:23, Acts 20:24

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:44 - God 1 Samuel 20:13 - The Lord do 2 Samuel 15:21 - surely Song of Solomon 6:1 - that Daniel 1:8 - purposed Zechariah 8:23 - We will Matthew 1:5 - Booz 2 Corinthians 7:3 - to die

Cross-References

Job 38:12
"And have you ever ordered Morning, ‘Get up!' told Dawn, ‘Get to work!' So you could seize Earth like a blanket and shake out the wicked like cockroaches? As the sun brings everything to light, brings out all the colors and shapes, The cover of darkness is snatched from the wicked— they're caught in the very act!
Psalms 8:1

A David Psalm

God , brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
Psalms 8:3
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried,.... She was determined to abide with her unto death, and not only was desirous to die as she did, but where she should die; in the same country, cottage, and bed, and be laid in the same grave, in hope of rising together at the resurrection of the just; having no regard at all to the sepulchres of her fathers, which people in all ages and countries have been fond of being laid in, as an honour and happiness. So with the Greeks and Romans, not only relations, but intimate friends, and such as had a strong affection for each other, were sometimes buried in the same grave, as Crates and Polemon i, Paris and Oenome k, and others l; see Galatians 2:20,

the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me; this is the form of oath she used for confirmation of what she had said, and to put an end to the debate on this subject; what she imprecates upon herself is not expressed, should she otherwise do than what she swears to; leaving Naomi to supply it in her own mind, and as being what was not fit to be named, and the greatest evil that could be thought to befall a perjured person.

i La‰rt. in Vita Cratet. k Strabo. Geograph. l. 13. p. 410. l Vid. Kirchman. de Funer. Roman. l. 3. c. 14. p. 433.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 1:17. The Lord do so to me, and more — May he inflict any of those punishments on me, and any worse punishment, if I part from thee till death. And it appears that she was true to her engagement; for Naomi was nourished in the house of Boaz in her old age, and became the fosterer and nurse of their son Obed, Ruth 4:15-16.


 
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